You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
AuthArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.260,
What probably matters to youSection of the release
A new deprecation-tracking system, BATCH_2026_09, adds structured migration metadata (including an explicit effect string describing exactly what breaks) to several legacy config values. inferenceGatewayAuthScheme: "sso" is deprecated since it is no longer inferred as browser sign-in (use inferenceCredentialKind: "interactive" instead), inferenceGatewayAuthScheme: "auto" now just rewrites to "bearer", and inferenceCredentialKind: "interactive" combined with inferenceVertexWorkforceAudience is flagged as ambiguous in favor of "workforce".
As part of the same change, Vertex AI's credential kind literal "oauth" is renamed to "interactive": the discriminated-union kind and the deriveInferenceCredentialKind logic for the Vertex OAuth client ID now both return "interactive" instead of "oauth".
The legacyFlatKey aliases isDxtEnabled and isDxtDirectoryEnabled also gain BATCH_2026_09 deprecation metadata (warnFrom 2026-09-10, supportEnds 2026-10-07): after support ends, the old names will be reported as unreadable, causing desktop extensions to read as disabled (isDxtEnabled) or the directory-only restriction to silently stop applying (isDxtDirectoryEnabled).
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
Added sinceA small documentation edit on Deploy Claude Desktop on 3P with an LLM gateway touched a line naming inferenceCredentialKind after this was published.From Claude Desktop 2.7032.0, `inferenceCredentialKind: "external-idp"` with [`inferenceIdpOidc`](/docs/third-party/claude-desktop/configuration#inferenceidpoidc) and `inferenceIdpAuthFlow`, the keys [Amazon Bedrock identity provider sign-…third-party/claude-desktop/gatewaysee the edit
Confirmed sinceAnthropic's documentation has since written up inferenceGatewayAuthScheme, on Configuration reference.| <span id="inferencegatewayauthscheme" />Gateway auth scheme<br />`inferenceGatewayAuthScheme` | `enum` | MDM + Bootstrap<br />Added in 1.3036.0 | `bearer` | How the gateway credential is sent on the wire (Authorization: Bearer vs x-api-k…third-party/claude-desktop/configurationsee the edit
Confirmed sinceAnthropic's documentation has since written up inferenceCredentialKind, on Configuration reference.| <span id="inferencecredentialkind" />Credential kind<br />`inferenceCredentialKind` | `enum` | MDM + Bootstrap<br />Added in 1.8555.0 | — | Selects the credential source. When set, only that source is used (no fallback). One of: `static`…third-party/claude-desktop/configurationsee the edit
How sure we are
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Anthropic's documentation agreesAnthropic's documentation has since written up inferenceCredentialKind, on Configuration reference.
